Big Pokey – Stone Hard to the Bone Yard Mob Style Music Group By Robert Gabriel 18 months removed from Big Pokey’s fatal heart attack, we are gifted with a posthumous album. Fellow Houston rap luminaries including Lil Keke, Z-Ro, Slim Thug, Paul Wall, Lil O and Mike D contribute to the project, unironically titled...
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Spice-1 – platinum OG 2
Elder Entertainment by Scott Bejda Spice 1 is someone I have been listening to since the Let It Be Known EP in 1991 and lyrically he never disappoints. He is one of the dopest MC’s of all time. This follow up to his last release, on Elder Entertainment is Executive Produced by Ryan Elder, and...
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RBX – Hibernation Shivers
Labcabin Records by Scott Bejda This is the first RBX album in probably a decade. Executive producers are Sccit and Siavash The Grouch. First let’s get this out of the way, the features. The features on this album are insane. You’re talking about Sccit but also you got Ras Kass, MC Eiht and Scitt on...
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Lil Sicx – The Resurrection
Diamond Life Music Group/One World Magazine by Scott Bejda This is a very dope artist out of Sacramento. He is the son of on of Sacramento’s pioneers, Sicx. He’s been doing this about, I wanna say five or six years as far as releasing independent albums and EP’s. This is his sixth or seventh project...
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King JC 18 Bloody Reign
by Scott Bejda I was super excited to see that King JC was back with his long awaited solo album. What’s awesome to me about King JC is when I arrived at Murder Dog back in 1998, he was already there doing album reviews with the likes of Al Kapone. He is a Memphis veteran...
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Geto Gala
DSII Music By Robert Gabriel Hailing from Central Texas, Geto Gala is a group led by vocalists Deezie Brown and Jake Lloyd. Following an initial EP released in 2021, Major League drops as their full-length album debut. Devoted students of classic Houston rap ala the DJ Screw variety, Geto Gala remains rooted in candy slab...
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Z-ro – Rother Vandross
By Robert Gabriel 27 years removed from Z-Ro’s debut solo album Look What You Did to Me, the Mo City Don of Houston delivers yet another devastating blow. With Wreckshop Records now in his corner, Z-Ro unleashes his second album of 2024, this one titled Call Me Rother. It’s a play on the name Luther...